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Incorporating ‘moveable interfaces’ and display systems into its design for HAY Tokyo, Schemata Architects has allowed the temporary store interior to move and grow as its needs change.
Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects designs movable display systems for HAY TOKYO, allowing the temporary store interior to move and grow as its needs change.
Remember Japanese capsule hotels? Although Tokyo is still littered with them, many conjure up a kitsch fad that has passed its heyday. Faced with the task of renovating one, Schemata Architects embraced a no-nonsense retro aesthetic to unite the two activities of sleeping and steaming.
A sauna and a nap? Schemata Architects renovate a capsule hotel in Tokyo, introducing sauna amenities and finding a no-nonsense retro aesthetic to unite the two functions.
A supermarket that makes you want to linger? Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects brought the unlikely notion to physical reality with a communicative interior for Fukushimaya Tasting Market in Tokyo.
From the maze of boutique and department stores abundant in Tokyo’s central Ginza district comes a retail concept store that reflects a new appreciation for scale and context, Joanna Kawecki writes.
Joanna Kawecki looks at the next generation of promising practices, namely Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects, Nobuo Araki / The Archetype, Onishi Maki and Hyakuda Yuki / O + H, and Fumihiko Sano / studio PHENOMENON.
